Some 30 utility companies want to put their mounting piles of spent fuel rods there until a permanent repository is found.

Collected materials will be guided to permanent repositories in appropriate institutional settings.

Many of these will reach capacity before a permanent repository can be built.

He said the industry would now concentrate on pressing the Government to open a permanent repository.

The money would come from fees the utilities have been assessed for a permanent repository, which will not be ready until at least 2010.

But a permanent repository may be decades away because of public opposition and technical uncertainty.

No permanent repository for spent nuclear fuel will be available until the late 1990s.

We will continue to work with the Academy to resolve this issue before the plant becomes a permanent repository.

The government has conducted studies into a permanent geological repository.

Museum staff members had always hoped that he would make the institution the permanent repository for the bulk of his other works.